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Greetings Ham Family VFW Post 3115 is seeking volunteers to serve as parking attendants at an upcoming event. Gaylen has provided the details. If a few folks would do this the club would then receive a donation of $500. You might say this is a fund raiser without the expense of buying supplies. So if you would be interested please review Gaylen's notes provided with my message. 73 Pat

This morning 8am approximately, there was noise on the repeater... #1 every hour on the hour, my squelch breaks listening to 145.27 ... If you listen hard, it is a repeater identifying on the hour. I can only pick out 1-2 syllables. But it always breaks my squelch.. I've been hearing it for a month now..Very weak... #2.. There is a QSO going one with W5's out of Oklahoma.. at my QTH they are S5 today.. #3.. Topeka comes in every morning at my QTH.. Sunrise to about 9am.. morning drive time. #4. Blind Hams will obliterate those weak signals.. or Locals like "BFU" right now... #5. I believe years ago I set the transmitter output with a DPL of 71 or 73.. At the time we were getting de-sense and I removed the 103.5 pl from the transitter so that it was not a component of any signal the transmitter was mixing with. SO if you are hearing distant repeaters on 145.27 and want to limit the chatter to only W0VFW's output... Let me know.. I may be the only one hearing distant repeaters because of height and location. Last checked REPEATERBOOK.COM there were 4 repeaters on 145.27 within 250 miles of us.. 2 one in kansas and one in OKlahoma both with the same 88.0 PL...

Spoke with Dennis a few minutes ago.. He is in the VA room 302.. he had surgery to remove his port.. It was infected and they couldn't clear up the infection.. He was in Westley when I was last month for the problem. They are going to keep him on antibiotics still any infection is cleared up them possible install a new one or a PIC.. I had a PIC when I was in for Pneumonia.. it's a fancy place to stick IV into you and take blood give meds.. So he's in good spirits and can have visitors. We will follow up in a few days.... Larry Macionski W8LM

Greetings Ham Family Last night's meeting felt pretty business heavy and it felt to me like folks didn't really enjoy it. This isn't the first meeting where folks felt a bit frustrated with an all business type meeting. And rather than complain I would like to offer a solution. Of course I can't fix this problem on my own and so I am writing this to get your input. What if all major discussions and decisions were made by the Board? Then the monthly meeting could host a demonstration or perhaps a discussion like what we do on a net. We would need to line up demonstrators or guest speakers, however, then meetings with members would be less business and more hobby oriented. Your thoughts? How could we write up a bylaws fix to do this? Do you have other such suggestions in order to improve the monthly meeting? Let's work on this here as a team and make VFWARC great again. We can do this. Please share your thoughts. Blessings Pat, KE0TGA PS. I really feel like if we want more regular attendance by members we need to make meetings interesting, informative, and fun. Please help make this happen. Your opinions matter. Note: Thus monthly meeting agenda would look something like this. 1. Open meeting 2. Pledge 3. Role call of officers 4. New members? 5. Reading of Board meeting minutes or just read last month's meeting minutes. 5. Treasurer's report 6. Announcements based upon what the board decided we would do. 7. Demonstration or talk 8. New Business, if something absolutely needs group attention 9. Good of the order 10. Close

Greetings Ham Family On Facebook you may see a post from me, a public post and not the one I posted to our group, that reads like a newspaper article. I am not a post member, but I was thinking. Could someone who is please copy that post, maybe fix it up a bit and add a graphic, and then have it put in the Post newsletter? Publicity will help us as we grow our group. I can easily write articles like this, but I then must pass them on as I don't know who to give them to or how this process for the newsletter works. Getting articles in there improves our club image. Blessings Pat, KE0TGA Vice President, VFWARC

I'm ready

Just received a phone call from the Post Commander Crestview will provide tables and chairs. There will be two golf carts available to Robert and Jeff to shuttle around however, as there's only two there will be a wait. I told him we'll have HT's available for communications if needs be. Gaylen W. Klein, USN (Ret) KE0QPG

Saturday I attended the gwafd planning meeting. Turnout was small. We discussed the gota. They said we can or not. He said any station can be a gota. They can pause on contesting calls, and explain about the hobby and explain the benefits of ham radio and then let them sit down and try it. We talked about lunch. Suggestions were made but no decisions were made. We also discussed walk in traffic, it was explained not much random traffic., but it was said that in previous years that people came in from advertisements. They did say they needed some one in contact with media to help get the word out. All through the meeting it was stressed this is an opportunity to draw new people into the hobby. There was a discussion of possible activities and demonstrations. He asked that clubs take a topic as a committee, (ie. Warc could take food vfw arc take something) he felt that since we already knew each other we could get right down to work. This will be discussed further on the 27 @1pm. He said one year they had the scouts there and introduced them to ham radio and allowed them to get their ham radio badge. We also discussed contacting the space station. It was made clear that he wants all clubs to participate that this is not just one club but all in Wichita Michael Holmes

Though this is from a blindness related list I thought it might be of interest to you because of what he is sharing. It contains links to older radio related magazines. Enjoy. Begin forwarded message: > > *From:* "David Goldfield via groups.io" > <david.goldfield@...> > *Date:* April 21, 2024 at 1:46:18 PM CDT > *To:* List <[email protected]> > *Subject:* *[Tech-VI] Guest Post: Pre-Internet Sources of Shortwave > Information* > *Reply-To:* [email protected] > > > > > ? > > > The SWLing Post - Sunday, April 21, 2024 at 7:22 AM > > > > ** > Guest Post: > Pre-Internet Sources of Shortwave Information > ** > > > > > > > > *Many thanks to SWLing Post contributor, Dan Greenall, who shares the > following guest post:* > > > > ( > https://swling.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/Communications-Handbook-1972-cover.jpeg > ) > > > > *by Dan Greenall* > > > > When I first discovered the world of shortwave listening, many years > before the internet, access to hobby related information was mostly > available through over-the-air DX programs, monthly DX club bulletins, as > well as a number of books and electronics magazines. I joined a few clubs > including the Midwest DX Club, SPEEDX, and the Ontario DX Association, and > eagerly awaited each issue of Electronics Illustrated and Popular > Electronics (early 1970’s) on the news stand. Later, in the 1980’s, > Popular Communications and Monitoring Times came along, though these were > not always easy to find here in Canada. > > > > Ironically, nearly all issues of these magazines can be read today, over > 30, 40 and even 50 years later, thanks to David Gleason’s not-for-profit, > free online library > > > > https://www.worldradiohistory.com/index.htm > > > > You can also find the semi-annual (and eventually annual) Communications > World (1971-81) which contained the popular White’s Radio Log. > > > > As well, five issues of the Communications Handbook can be found; 1963, > 1966, 1967, 1974 and 1977. It only came out once a year but was still a > favourite of mine, so much so, that I still have my copies from 1971 and > 1972. > > > > ( > https://swling.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/Communications-Handbook-1971-cover.jpeg > ) I have scanned parts of these and put them on the Internet Archive. You > can find them here: > > > > Communications Handbook 1971: https://archive.org/details/page-09 > > > > Communications Handbook 1972: https://archive.org/details/page-20 > > > > Here are links that will lead to some of the other magazines: > > > > As a bonus, all of the issues of the monthly SPEEDX bulletin (1971-95) > have been made available here > > > > https://www.worldradiohistory.com/Speedx.htm > > > > And finally, a good read is Shortwave Voices of the World by the late Dr. > Richard E. Wood written in 1969. I still have my copy of it, but you can > find it online here > > > > https://archive.org/details/shortwave-voices-of-the-world-richard-wood-ed-1-pr-1-1969 > > > > > My link to the 1971 Communications Handbook ( > https://archive.org/details/page-09 ) contains pages regarding the old WDX > SWL registration program. I have found my old certificate from December > 1971: > > > > ( > https://swling.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/WDX-SWL-Certificate-1971.jpeg > ) > > > > Wonder how many others still have theirs, or even the WPE ones from the > 1960’s? > > Spread the radio love > > > > > > > https://swling.com/blog/2024/04/guest-post-pre-internet-sources-of-shortwave-information/ > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > David Goldfield, > > > > Blindness Assistive Technology Specialist > > > > > > > > If you need help using your assistive technology learn about my training > services by visiting > > > > WWW.ScreenReaderTraining.com ( http://www.screenreadertraining.com/ ) > > > > > > > > Am Yisrael Chai > > > > The Nation of Israel Lives! > > > > > > > > JAWS Certified, 2022 ( > https://www.freedomscientific.com/Training/Certification/ ) > > > > NVDA Certified Expert ( https://ce

Greetings Ham Family Tomorrow is our monthly ham club meeting at the post at 7pm. President Tracie will be in charge, so if you have issues you want added to our agenda please contact President Tracie. April Agenda 1. Call to order President Tracie 2. Recite the Pledge 3. Role call of officers 4. New members? 5. Vote on new members? 6. Reading of March minutes Secretary Michael H 7. Treasurer's report Jennifer 8. New bills? 9. Committee report Vice President Patricia 10. Old Business a. Golf Event b. Field Day Plans c. Sidewalk Sale Plans d. Facebook Group 11. New Business a. Internet needed for UHF repeater 12. Good of the order 13. Meeting closed Again if you have concerns please contact Tracie to have items added to the agenda. Hope to see you at the meeting. Invite a friend. Let's make our ham club great again. 73 Pat Hawkins, KE0TGA Vice President, VFW-ARC

Greetings VFW Hams President Tracie has asked me to send out the following notice. Please plan to participate if you can. Board Meeting of the VFW Post 3115 Amateur Radio Club Saturday April 20, 2024 10am at the channel 5 location. Other dates to remember include the following. Monthly club members meeting April 23. Gold VFW event April 26 Happy Hamming. Pat Hawkins, KE0TGA Vice President, VFWARC

I modified the design somewhat to better reflect us as an amateur radio club. Gaylen W. Klein, USN(Ret) KE0QPG

I've been asked by the Post to provide a logo for the gold tournament. Attached is what I came up with. Let me know what you think, bear in mind that this has a short fuse. Gaylen W. Klein, USN(Ret) KE0QPG

As mentioned during our weekly net. 04 May 24 the VFW Riders will be hosting a Steak and Shrimp dinner. Reservations may be made at www.wichitavfw3115.com <http://www.wichitavfw3115.com> Menu - Ribeye Steak, cooked to order. 5 Butterfly shrimp Baked Potato Green Beans Salad Dinner roll Dessert $20/person - Steak & Shrimp $15/Person - Steak only Water and tea are complimentary, other beverages are available at the bar. Gaylen W. Klein, USN(Ret) KE0QPG

It's high noon on the Old Goat Ranch... Preparing for the Claremore Oklahoma State Convention next Friday and Saturday... I am going to have, for sale a TYT tri-bander TH-350.. Hand held I bought it around Christmas time, from R&L electronics - it was one of their "Daily Specials". I paid $65 for it. It is 146, 222 and 440. It comes with 2 antennas- one for 144/440 and another just for 222.It still has the protector on the LCD display...It displays 3 frequencies.. It does not talkIt is locked on Ham band transmit only but will receive only out of band.It is not supported by chirp. But has it's own programming software. LIKE NEW It basically sits on my desk and talks to my SHARI hot spot. I'm asking $40 for it.. with the factory box etc.. stand up charger... --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- I also have a ANYTONE -TERM8R -- it's over 5 years old.. It has 3 power up modesPart 90 VHF and UHF GMRS- MURS- it was commercial type accepted for MURS and GMRS.It can be programmed using CHIRPIt can cross band repeatIt has dual receiversRecieves Air Band It receives 500kcs to 30 megs AM short wave.. (external antenna requiredI have a BNC adapter on it for quick antenna change. It will play FM music and switch when a cal comes in.. It does 2 and 5 tone signaling..as well as touch tome encoding-decoding..I paid $139 for it at Radio Shack Derby.. I'd take $50 for it because it has so many features. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- I have a Yaesu FT-991 .HF-VHF-UHF 100 watts... not a model A version.. I have a AZDEN 2Meter FM PCS-6000HBoth were purchased to settle an estate and I need to set a price after I check them out-repair them this week. Contact me if interested.... Larry W8LM

Thank you to Patrica KF0TGA for saying such nice things on Blind hams Digital net about me this morning.. If you missed it, just repeat- "Liar, Liar, Pants on fire" . Bu that's not the reason for this post... Next Weekend is Claremore- OKLAHOMA State ARRL convention... I have 2 tables there and want to sell off some valuable junk I have..I have too many HT's.. BUT---AMAZON just delivered a pair of Baofeng BF-5RH radio's to me... Tri-Band 999channels.. for $53.. So I am going to play with them. The review was quite impressive... https://www.miklor.com/COM/Review_5RM.php I just unboxed, but have not turned them on. Charging batteries. Only Negative thus far - is antenna is 2M/440 no 220 antenna comes with it, but you can buy a triband antenna for it.. So I will be playing with them today.. If I lik ethem I'll be selling some older HT's If I don;t I"ll be selling them or ship them back to Amazon.. Stay Tuned.. Larry W8LM

Please see attached. Respectuflly, Gaylen W. Klein, USN(Ret)

Submitted for your approval. Gaylen W. Klein, USN(Ret) KE0QPG

All, Attached is a proposed flyer for the Claremore Hamfest. If it is acceptable, I'll print 100 copies for Mark to have on hand for the event. Gaylen W. Klein, USN(Ret) KE0QPG

Hello Hope this information reach’s all in good spirits. In the invent that VFW is open for us to hold the Side Walk Sale June 15 th I was asked to contact Mark and get some pointers. I contacted Mark Breche (Radio Shack) On the phone. Mark and Shane are in for the Sidewalk sale. Things that were brought up. 1. Check on city permit 2. Inform Police department on west central that we are going to fold this event. And the start - finish times. 3. To get the word out by using this Radio communication 145.270 VFW advertisement 146.940. Sunday 5:30 pm Ten tec 4. Print up a flyer of 100 sheets and get them to Mark ASAP to take to Claremore Oklahoma Ham Feast which is in 2 weeks or less. 12-13 April So we are down to getting the Post 3115 backing on allowing to have this event. Then flyer Then the details has to whom will be supplying: Water Food Door prize Venders could be contacted Icom Yaesu MFJ Fly should read as follows Event name___________________ Sponsored by_________________ Location _____________________ Date______\_____\______ Time it starts ________ to Ends_____ Rules as in parking, first come first spot. No Fire Arms per VFW / no alcohol in the parking lot per VFW. Other details will be worked out. That’s all I have. KF0BFU 316 641 5426. -- Michael Moore KF0BFU Sergeant of Arms